A lot of talking and not much substance on how Delivery is going to take care of existing employee's, and Customers. Move into the digital world is a crock, we have been in the digital world for that the last 40 years. Stop using Cloud / digital / grass roots , get to the point with what your saying.
What a waste of time, structure remains the same , Leadership stays the same and thats DXC's down fall
I actually felt that it was a refreshing town hall. The messages were very clear with a right balance of continuity and change. DXC needs to take out costs and it needs to transform; all at the same time. There is no shying away from it.
@UmTnkUd-3slu why are we doing it? Simply because its too expensive to fix it.
The money for ES/CSC "integration" will dry up pretty soon. Just like every other CSC acquisition project. The absolute minimum is done, rather than trying to create one standard approach.
Get everyone using ETES, merge the finance systems, deploy corporate email.... abandon the rest to whatever. Collect the revenue from whatever the company was doing before, fill Mikey's pockets.
A little bit more is having to be done for ES as its a partial purchase, not the entirety of HPE. As such they do need to deploy new OS builds, swap applications over etc because of licencing reasons (which you wouldn't have got it CSC had merged with all of HPE).
Just have a look at some of the trainwreck integrations of CSC purchases over the years....
Effectively you need to throw away all your old junk and root and branch replace the entire lot with modern systems - not piecemeal, the whole lot.
Then why are we using HPE forms , CSC GCARS , no clear cut asset management system. A much of crap that should be redesigned. Work internally and get a list of real requirements and either program or by packages that meet this requirements.
Why would any customer come to us for ""Digital Transformation"" when we can't do it internally.
@UmTnkUd-2jwu oh I absolutely agree that true leadership is massively missing and that to achieve something out of "Digital Transformation" you need everyone in DXC to understand it in order to deliver it.
You also need to have arrayed all of your offerings in a coherent way because the root and branch nature of Digital Transformation requires interoperability.
Which is why DXC will be probably the worst supplier to deliver it to the clients.
CSC under Mikey was barely coherent after being decimated and adding a fraction of HPE to the pile hasn't made anything better (quite the opposite).
I don't know about the rest of you, but I see little success in gluing the two halves together. In fact I see little progress in even trying. In my area we are almost 18 months into "project DXC" and we've only got to the point where we are starting to even be introduced to our other halves, let alone agreeing on who is doing what. And all of this to a backdrop of the people getting culled, managers swapping roles and the usual endless Mikey chaos.
Hardly fertile ground for a radical sea change in IT services.
"Digital Transformation" is just the latest buzz word in Mikey Buzz Word Bingo. Get your bingo cards ready for the next quarter's analyst call...
"...but I am surprised none of you seem to have bothered to try to understand what Digital Transformation actually is."
dude, why don't we just blame the victim here. You first part was correct, they actually do a terrible job of explaining Digital Transformation... and pretty much anything else.
I will concede that it is up to me to learn the latest and greatest my company has to offer. But dang, can we not have coherent leadership do a better job of well... LEADERSHIP and perform one of the tasks of leadership by explaining to the masses the direction they wish to go, what that direction entails, my role in that direction as well as expectations.
Maybe you should consider a role as a spokesperson for the whole Digital Transformation thing as you perform an admirable job of explaining that made DT much clearer and explainable to my peers.
I know this place is terrible at actually explaining anything to employees, but I am surprised none of you seem to have bothered to try to understand what Digital Transformation actually is.
Digital Transformation is the IT world's latest marketing technique.
What it means is that whilst a client might have moved to IT since the 1990's, their systems are a mismatched pile of stuff and some elements might need refreshing.
Effectively you need to throw away all your old junk and root and branch replace the entire lot with modern systems - not piecemeal, the whole lot.
Once you have done that, you can benefit from modern IT, the one where systems are able to exchange data with each other rather than keep storing non-identical copies of it.
Its a risky strategy and its one which I believe no sizeable company has actually managed to achieve despite spending hundreds of millions.
As I said, excellent marketing for IT companies in the face of product stagnation.
Towards the end his voice was giving all the classic signs of someone who is crapping themselves. The last two questions were pretty direct, and he was way out of his comfort zone. Is it because he knows that the buffer between him and the lunatic is gone or is it because he knows that he is blowing b---s---?
Yep, 30 min of my life I will never get back. Nothing new, refreshing or at least giving confidence...
I too was disappointed in the DXC Deliver Town Hall. Not much substance. Typical responses to question from the masses. A lot of blah, blah, blah.
I'm trying to give the Sampson guy a break considering he's only had the job for three days prior to the meeting.
Was looking for some guidance and leadership from this town hall. Got little...
DXC, along with the other tech giants, know that the IT world is changing but they don't know how to respond, hence the "Digital Transformation" nonsense. Ask them to explain what it actually means and they can't. They have no strategy other than telling folks to sell more "Digital" stuff.
Lawrie has manoeuvred himself into a position where he, and only he, makes decisions. Employees cannot challenge the mission statements as ordinary employees never got anywhere near Lawrie. Execs CAN challenge his mission statements but it won't end well...
Is Bionix the best that Mikey and his stooges can think of? Everything else they announce is yesterday's news. All that Mikey cares about is a few more years till retirement and then DXC (or what is left of it) is someone else's problem to manage.
You are right about the whole "Digital Transformation" thing being so out of date. Why is it that no-one mentions this? 40 years is probably an exaggerated estimate of when the rest of the world made the move on this.... but yeah... in the past 30 years or so most companies have moved from filing cabinets, type writers, snail mail, paper and faxes to using computer systems and software (i.e. digital) for all business transactions. It has obviously evolved in those years but it is not new and not a business plan for these times!!! Why is this imbecilic Mikey (Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, DXC Technology) running this company!? Is he senile? Why is there no challenge to his moronic mission statements? It's all very strange.